Liberals take the Goldilocks approach to carbon pricing

Usually, decision documents referred to cabinet include three potential options for approval. One is too hot, one is too cold, and one is just right. The middle ground tends to represent the choice of perfect porridge in the story of Goldilocks. In the draft version of carbon pricing, Liberals obviously opted for the not-too-hot and not-too-cold approach.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna. The issue of comprehensive legislation has been on the government agenda since the first International Panel on Climate Change met in Montreal back in 1994. Twenty-four years later, this isn’t perfect but the country is finally moving in the right direction. The Hill Times by Andrew Meade

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BY SHEILA COPPS

January 22, 2018

OTTAWA–Elizabeth May is horrified and Brad Wall plans to take the federal government to court. Liberals must have done something right because they occupied the moderate middle in last week’s proposed legislation on carbon pricing. Co-authored by the ministers of finance and environment, the G...

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